The Star Trek franchise continues to boldly go where no one has gone before. It’s hard to believe that Captain James T. Kirk and crew are now celebrating their 46th anniversary.
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Interactive Google Doodle celebrates Star Trek’s 46th Anniversary
September 7, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Queen’s Freddie Mercury becomes an Angry Bird
September 4, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
To help support Freddie For A Day (FFAD) and to commemorate his birthday on September 5th, legendary Queen front man, the late Freddie Mercury will become an honorary member of the flock of Angry Birds. This is part of a unique partnership between FFAD, a charity and Rovio Entertainment, creators of the Angry Birds App.
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Back to School trending paperless
September 3, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Gauging by the popularity of some of the gadgets moving off the shelves, it certainly looks like back to school is trending in the paperless direction. While pens and pencils and Hilroy spiral note pads are still passing through the checkout stand, gadgets, especially digital input devices, according to one retail manager, are becoming items of choice for the new school season.
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Review: SATECHI Camera Holder & QuikPod Mobile
August 28, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Propping up your camera or video recorder properly can often act as the ultimate test of patience. You seem to be forever at the mercy of the tripod itself and the surface it’s sitting on. You always need to make sure you’re centred and have adjusted each of the tripod’s legs until it’s just right. Sometimes the table wobbles or the tripod slips on the surface and you’re frustrated even before you’ve started shooting.
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Microsoft unveils a new logo and look
August 23, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
After 2 1/2 decades with the same look Microsoft unveils a new logo for the company. The logo will consist of 2 components; their symbol consisting of the 4 colour squares signifying its diverse portfolio of products and a logotype in the Segoe font, the same one used in their marketing communications.
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When Zuckerberg grills everyone listens
August 20, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
With the price of Facebook shares dropping to about 50% of their issue price, Mark Zuckerberg and company is likely no longer the darling of Wall Street but regardless, people are certainly still willing not only to hear what he has to say, but also about what’s on his barbecue.
iRig MIC Cast enhances your iOS audio recording
August 17, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
iOS devices have decent little built-in microphones but of course, they have their limitations. So IK Multimedia decided to come up with the iRig Mic Cast, an ultra-compact microphone, that’s designed, with no pun intended, to take the recording capability on your iDevice to the next level.
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Review: Apple Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8
August 16, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
After all the buzz and announcements regarding Apple’s Mountain Lion, or OS X 10.8 the OS X’s 9th major release and the over 200 new features it would bring, I couldn’t wait to take it for a test drive. I quickly recalled the events of a year ago during the last major release, Mac OS X Lion. It was then l made the unfortunate choice of sitting and watching the screen anxiously as the new OS downloaded and proceeded to install. So this time, acknowledging the comprehensive update of Apple’s latest cat, which weighs in at a hefty 4.05GB, I decided I would do it a little differently.
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NBC to stream 2012 Olympics closing ceremony live online
August 12, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Probably much to everyone’s surprise, some of you will be able to watch the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Summer Olympics streamed live over the Internet. According to a post on Mashable, the chairman of NBC Sports acknowledged that their less than spectacular handling of the opening ceremonies led to the change of heart.
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NASA rover Curiosity lands on Mars
August 8, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
While many of us have been glued to our entertainment devices – iPads, iPhone and televisions watching the London 2012 Summer Olympics, something a little more out of this world happened early Monday morning August 6th. If you’re curious, you’re partially right because after an extremely intense descent, NASA’s rover interestingly named Curiosity, landed safely on Mars.
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